where's the wish list for F11?

[sean darcy]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 
>> Why not simply provide the default fontconfig package, with the ability
>> to load fonts from say "/usr/local/share/fonts" ?
>>
> 
> Good idea.
> This is exactly what I've done to add some unpackaged fonts
> to my system.
> A comment in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf says you should have local
> modifications in /etc/fonts/local.conf.
> 
> This is the content of my local.conf:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>   <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
> </fontconfig>
> 

OK, so I set up local.conf in /etc/fonts. Then what? It just works? 
Reboot? Restart some service?  Restart X? Does  it work for Type1 as 
well as TT?

I'm stunned it could be so easy. It as though there's cabalistic 
knowledge on Fedora only the initiates know.

sean

sean